mustardgreen

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Border Radius Crimes on GitHub(earthly-delights.net)
5 points by mustardgreen 9mo ago|0 comments
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by mustardgreen 3y ago
As someone around the telescope a few years back, I would absolutely recommend applying! Frossie is legit and is an excellent engineer and boss
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by mustardgreen 4y ago
That’s exactly how I would put it. I read his article on Philosophy yesterday at 30 after reading his essays at 20 and admiring him. It’s crazy how impressionable my mind was at 20
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by mustardgreen 4y ago
I worked at a BigCo after a bunch of small ones, and got totally stressed about the friction as well. Took me a couple years away from the experience to realize that slow processes can be a great thing in their own right because it gives yo
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by mustardgreen 4y ago
Hume’s Wikipedia page is really funny where it describes his life post breakdown. He certainly enjoyed the merry life and a good port. I thought it would be a funny idea to do a “day in the life” video following Hume’s lifestyle and just en
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by mustardgreen 4y ago
The author of this essay assumes a familiarity with the MFA v. PHD debate that might not be right for the HN crowd. If you're curious about this topic though, I would recommend Elif Batuman's Get a Real Degree: https://
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by mustardgreen 4y ago
Yes
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by mustardgreen 4y ago
Thomas Hobbes was in his 60’s when he wrote Leviathan. I think about that a lot when I get discouraged.
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by mustardgreen 5y ago
I agree with others about the clicks. I weirdly got it on the first guess and thought it would be revealed after. Or more of the squares would be revealed per guess a la wordle
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by mustardgreen 5y ago
I’m reading The Critique of Pure Reason right now. If anyone else is interested we can start a book club, it’s slow going.
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by mustardgreen 5y ago
Ashlee Vance's biography, 'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future'
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by mustardgreen 5y ago
I would put On The Nature of Things on my list of life changing books as well. Its sublime
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by mustardgreen 5y ago
The first episode of Mad Men alludes to Bernays work. They are trying to come up with a new campaign for Lucky Strike and he rejects an idea to base the campaign off of Freud’s research.
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by mustardgreen 5y ago
The Starlink fleet has been a huge problem for the field of astronomy entirely do to this "move fast and break things" ethos.
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by mustardgreen 5y ago
Does Ukranian Airlines have a bad reputation besides the incident in Tehran? I rode it once, and besides it being a particularly rowdy flight, I found it to be a very strict and safe airline.
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by mustardgreen 5y ago
This was a very interesting essay. I learned about Material Culture at design school but had never considered it through the lens of literature before. The physicality of the written word is itself very ephemeral, which is something I spend